1929 in animation
Events in 1929 in animation.
Events
March
March 17: Walt Disney gives the Mickey Mouse short Plane Crazy an official release, now as a sound cartoon. The short marks the debut of Clarabelle Cow.June
June 28: In the Mickey Mouse cartoon The Plowboy, produced by Walt Disney, Horace Horsecollar makes his debut.July
July 31: In the Mickey Mouse cartoon The Karnival Kid, Walt Disney voices Mickey for the first time.August
August 22: Walt Disney's The Skeleton Dance, the first Silly Symphony, is released.Specific date unknown
- The first pornographic animated cartoon, Eveready Harton in Buried Treasure, is made as a collaboration between Raoul Barré, Max Fleischer and Paul Terry's studios.
Films released
- 5 January – Cow Belles
- 6 January:
- * Snapping the Whip
- * Wooden Money
- 18 January – Hospitalities
- 21 January – Yanky Clippers
- 1 February – Reduced Weights
- 15 February – Flying Yeast
- 18 February – Sick Cylinders
- 1 March – Vanishing Screams
- 15 March:
- * A Joint Affair
- * The Barn Dance
- 17 March – Plane Crazy
- 19 March – Sheep Skinned
- 20 March – The Opry House
- 1 April – Alpine Antics
- 13 April – The Lone Shark
- 16 April – The Water Cure
- 27 April – Torrid Toreadors
- 30 April – When the Cat's Away
- May – Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid
- 11 May – Golf Socks
- 12 May – The Faithful Pup
- 19 May – The Ball Park
- 25 May – Petting Larceny
- 26 May – Custard Pies
- 1 June – The Barnyard Battle
- 8 June – Hat Aches
- 22 June – Fur Peace
- 28 June – The Plowboy
- 6 July – Auto Suggestion
- 20 July – Sleepy Holler
- 21 July – House Cleaning Time
- 22 July:
- * Jungle Jingles
- * Weary Willies
- 31 July – The Karnival Kid
- 15 August – Ratskin
- 22 August – The Skeleton Dance
- 28 August – Mickey's Follies
- 2 September – Race Riot
- 12 September – Canned Music
- 15 September – Jungle Fool
- 16 September – Oil's Well
- 26 September – El Terrible Toreador
- 29 September – Permanent Wave
- 1 October – Mickey's Choo-Choo
- 10 October – Port Whines
- 11 October – Summertime
- 15 October – The Jazz Fool
- 18 October – Mill Pond
- 24 October – Springtime
- 30 October – Hell's Bells
- 1 November – Barnyard Melody
- 7 November:
- * Sole Mates
- * Tuning In
- 15 November – Jungle Rhythm
- 24 November – Hurdy Gurdy
- 2 December – The Haunted House
- 18 December – Wild Waves
- 19 December - The Merry Dwarfs
- 30 December – ''Farm Relief''
Births
January
January 20:- * Arte Johnson, American comic actor,.
- * Jean-Jacques Perrey, French electronic music performer, composer, producer and promoter,.January 23: Carl Banas, Canadian radio personality and actor,.January 26: Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist and author,.January 30: Morton Stevens, American film and television composer,.January 31: Jean Simmons, English actress,.
February
February 10: Jerry Goldsmith, American composer and conductor,.February 16: Olga James, American singer and actress,.February 17: Patricia Routledge, English actress,.February 22: James Hong, American actor.February 23: Queta Lavat, Mexican actress,.February 28: Frank Gehry, Canadian–American architect and designer,.March
March 1: Maurice Kanbar, American Producer,.March 5: Paul Coker Jr., American illustrator, character designer and production designer,.March 10: Alice Hirson, American actress,.March 12: Billy Lee, American actor,.March 13: Peter Breck, American actor,.March 14: José Santa Cruz, Brazilian actor, comedian and voice actor,.March 31: Frank Braxton, American animator,.April
April 1:- * Barbara Bryne, British-American actress,.
- * Jonathan Haze, American actor,.
- * Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator and film director,.April 5: Nigel Hawthorne, English actor,.April 8: Betty Paraskevas, American writer and lyricist,.April 10:
- * Max von Sydow, Swedish actor,.
- * Liz Sheridan, American actress and dancer,.April 13: Ann Sullivan, American animator,.April 14:
- * Gerry Anderson, English television and film producer, director, writer and occasional voice artist,.
- * Cliff Roberts, American photographer, cartoonist, animator and comic book artist,.April 21:
- * Barry Blitzer, American television writer,.
- * Doug Goodwin, American pianist, author, songwriter and composer,.April 26: Gordon Hunt, American writer, director, and actor,.April 29: Phyllis Craig, American animator and ink and paint supervisor,.
May
May 5: Ilene Woods, American actress and singer,.May 6: Polly Lou Livingston, American actress,.May 10: George Coe, American actor,.May 11: Margaret Kerry, American actress.May 23:- * Paul Wexler, American actor,.
- * Corinne Conley, American actress.May 24: Art Leonardi, American animator, storyboard artist, character designer, prop designer, background artist, writer, producer and director.May 28: Shane Rimmer, Canadian actor,.
June
June 3: Brian Lewis, British illustrator, comics artist and animator,.June 4: Digby Wolfe, English actor,.June 5: Normand Hudon, Canadian animator and comics artist,.June 17: James Shigeta, Japanese-American actor,.June 25: Eric Carle, American author, designer and illustrator,.June 26: Milton Glaser, American graphic designer,.June 27: Donyo Donev, Bulgarian cartoonist, caricaturist, animator and comics artist,.June 29: Michio Mamiya, Japanese composer,.July
July 1: Hal Sutherland, American painter, film director and animator,.July 3: Béatrice Picard, Canadian actress,.July 5: Katherine Helmond, American actress,.July 10: Jef Cassiers, Belgian actor, comedian, animator and film director,.July 11: Sandy Frank, American television producer, distributor, and marketer.July 13: René Laloux, French animator and film director,.July 17: Helene Stanley, American actress,.July 18: Dick Button, American figure skater and analyst,.July 23: Maya Buzinova, Russian animator,.July 30: Martin Strudler, American animator and background designer,.August
August 13: Pat Harrington Jr., American actor,.August 21: Vance Gerry, American storyboard artist, concept artist, and character designer,.September
September 2: Victor Spinetti, Welsh actor, author, poet and raconteur,.September 5: Bob Newhart, American actor and comedian,.September 21: Elsa Raven, American actress,.September 25: Pepe Soriano, Argentine actor,.October
October 8: Manuel García Ferré, Argentine cartoonist and animator,.October 11: Michael Magee, Canadian actor, singer and author,.October 16: Edward Bleier, American television executive,.October 25: Robin Parkinson, English actor,.October 27:- * Glenn Schmitz, American animator and comics artist,.
- * Maxine Markota, American animation checker,.October 28: Joan Plowright, English actress,.
November
November 1: Francisco Macián, Spanish animator, film director and producer,.November 6: June Squibb, American actress.November 15: Ed Asner, American actor and president of the Screen Actors Guild,.November 17: Goro Naya, Japanese voice actor,.November 21: Mike Reynolds, American television writer and voice actor,.November 23: Bruce Petty, Australian political cartoonist, sculptor and animated film director,.November 25: Pavao Štalter, Croatian animator, director, screenwriter, scenographer and artist,.November 29: Mike Kricfalusi, American voice actor and father of John Kricfalusi,.November 30:- * Joan Ganz Cooney, American television writer and producer.
- * Sherman Labby, American storyboard artist and production illustrator,.
- * Dick Clark, American radio and television personality, television producer and actor,.
December
December 1: David Doyle, American actor,.December 7: Boris Stepantsev, Russian film director, animator, and illustrator,.December 13: Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor,.December 21: Anita Gordon, American singer and actress,.December 24: David H. DePatie, American film and television producer,.''''Specific date unknown
- Frank Andrina, American animator and timing director,.
- Esfandiar Ahmadieh, Iranian film director,.